October 2020
Is NASA’s Artemis Accords agreement Moon-proof?
... administrative service in the Ministry of Civil Aviation and was on the boards of Air India and the Airports Authority of India. As India’s Permanent Representative to the International Civil Aviation Organisation in Montreal, he is focussed on the...
May 2024
Could ICAO be a NewSpace regulator?
...’s administrative service in the Ministry of Civil Aviation and was on the boards of Air India and the Airports Authority of India. As India’s Permanent Representative to the International Civil Aviation Organisation in Montreal, he is focused on the...
June 2015
Great expectations: launch markets, SpaceX, China, and other new players
...competitor to Vega (Europe), Taurus and Minotaur (US), and GSLV (India) – while being able to carry bigger loads. Yet the ... in the “lighter launches” category. In Russia, Europe, India, China and Japan, government-owned satellites will be launched by...
15 February 2017
Indian rocket sets new satellite launch record
... – ISRO Nano Satellite-1 (INS-1) weighing 8.4 kg and INS-2 weighing 9.7 kg – are technology demonstration satellites from India. The remaining 101 co-passenger satellites carried were international customer satellites from USA (96), The Netherlands...
July 2014
Preventing catastrophic impact
...: one person died and 20 others were injured, and damage was caused to property in the state of Orissa in India by a fragment of a massive meteorite; • 7 June 2006: there was an explosion in the Norwegian mountains, similar in magnitude to the atomic...
March 2016
Space Mining – the Reality of Tomorrow?
... Resources (NNR) Study show an overall trend toward increasing shortages. The upward mobility of the populations in China, India, Indonesia, and other newly industrialised countries suggests that up to three times more consumer demand for products...
